The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 309, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 22, 1912 Page: 4 of 12
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Ardmor Sunday September 22 1912
THE DAILY ABDMOREITE
PRESENT TARIFF
FOSTERS FRAUDS
Domestic Cotton Fabrics Sold
Americans as "Imported."
CHEATING THE CONSUMER
Leu Than 2 Par Cent Come From
Abroad but American Pay Ex-
orbitant Price For Home Good Be-
came of Deception and Prohibitive
1 Tariff.
By ROBERT KENNETH MAC LEA
IFornierly consulting: export of the tariff
bourd J
New York. Aug. .-Tlio prohibitive
tariff revised upward by tlio I'njne-
AKlrlch Inw. permits imJ fosters
wholesale frauds upon tlio American
consumer of eotton Rood.
Less than 2 per cent of the cotton
fabrics consumed In (ho United States
comes from abroad because the pro-
tective duties have been mailo so liln
that importation Is unprofitable.
Vet In My one-third of the cotton
piece Roods koIiik over retail counters
Is sold as "I.MI'oliTi:i" or under
names Implying a foreign origin.
This deception is generally perpe-
trated upon the consumer for the pur-
pose of obtaining exorbitant prices for
domestic goods.
The consumer believing the u'oods
tiro Imported ami knowing that tho
tariff adds excessively to their cost
pays 50 to 100 per cent more than a
fair price and does not suspect that ho
is being cheated.
Drains the Pocketbook.
( Let us pi straight to 11 specific ex-
nniplo of the operation of this fraud.
Take the tariff board's cloth sample
No. 50 described as a "printed dim-
ity." This Is a medium priced cotton
fabric known to almost every Ameri-
can housewife. What woman or girl
hasn't possessed n dimity dress within
the Inst few years? And if she went
to tho cotfoii pxids counter and
bought the material by the yard she
no doubt saw such signs as:
:
2 IRISH DIMITY. f
i ac-
i The World's tariff editor visited with
me n department store in a New F.ng-
land city of lOO.tXM Inhabitants and
found recently n counter piled with
these goods placarded:
I REAL IRISH DIMITY. I
We procured samples of a.11 of them.
There was not one piece of lmorted
goods In the lot. Investigation proved
that the store buyer had purchased
these "Irish" dimities from a Itoston
Jobber at 10 cents a yard nnd that they
were made in a New England mill.
Here was a supposed "bargain" In
n supposedly "Imported" fabric on
which the retailer was taking a profit
of !( per cent!
I This happens to be a fabric repre-
isenting the highest ollleieney in Amer-
ican manufacturing. It is a class of
goods in which we can compete ad-
vantageously with any country in tho
world. The tariff hoard's Investlga-
jtlons discovered on sample No. 50 on
American cost of production of 7 1-3
cents a yard. In all the mills Inves-
tigated the board's representatives
found that the low and high costs of
inianufacture of this fabric did not
vary half a cent a yard.
Who Get the Profit f
The manufacturer of this American
dimity that is sold ns "Imported" and
"Irish" does not get the excessive
profit. In some Instances the manu-
facturer does hut hero be sells to the
Joblier at 8 cents taking only a nom-
inal manufacturing profit of two-thirds
cent a yard. Tho Jobber sells to the
retailer at 10 cents a 25 per cent mar-
gin for tho Jobber.
In Canada with 23 per cent tariff a
cotton fabric costing 10 cents a yard
would be sold to the consumer at 1 2 '.-4
or sometimes at 15 cents If the pattern
happened to be In special demand 1;
the United Stales with Its prohibitive
tnrlfT the retail price is always much
higher. Tin; standard price retail is 15
cents for the fabric wholesaled at 10.
Hut when the tariff Is excessive-It is
54 per cent on this printed dlmlty-the
dishonest retailer can "get away with"
his deception and double or more than
double his normal profit by selling the
domestic article as "imported." The
retailer knows that he could not buy
t genuine Imported dimity of this
quality from a foreign manufacturer'
agent in New York for less than l.V-j
or 10(4 cents and tho trade would re-
tall this at 25. Ho compares the do-
mestic and foreign fabrics and Muds
tho American made Is equal In every
respect to tho fabric from abroad. So
ho says to himself. "Why not sell It as
foreign goods at a price that will make
It attractive?"
Mill Man Pocket It.
In some cases the manufacturer
takes the tariff favor for his own
pocket. Tariff board sample No. HI
Illustrates this. No. 31 Is a fancy
white goods used for dress wear. Its
manufacturer encountered a fair de
mand for this material during the pasi
season. Table No. Ki'J of the tariff
board's report shows a manufacturing
profit of '.10 per cent. It costs to manu
facture this cloth 12.10 cents a yard.
The mill refuses to sell to any one ex
ceptlng the Jobber and through this
channel the cloth reaches t lie retailer
at 22' i to 25 cents a yard. The retail-
er charges the consumer 115 to 30 cents
according to location and local compe-
tition. For comparison take the value of the
fabric on weight. At tho manufacture
I ing cost or 1.10 cents a yara one
; pound of this goods is worth $1.23 as it
I leaves the mill. When it reaches the
I consumer (at 39 cents a yard) the
price lias been boosted to $4 20 a
pound.
I J'he manufacturing cost of this cloth
In Kngland is practically the same as
here yet the English manufacturer
sells it for 15-11 cents a yard the Job-
ber at 1720 cents nnd the retailer at 22
cents.
Hear In mind that the "difference In
cost of production at home nnd abroad"
In this class of fabric represented by
sample No. 31 amounts to nothing
but the I'nyiie-Aldrlcli tariff on It
equals 55.S0 per cent or S'A cents per
running yard.
Fancy goods of the type of sample
No. 31 are products of the Mppitt-.Mc-Coll
class of mills. The Payne AIdrlch
bill raised the duty on this cloth from
35 to 55 SO per cent Is it any wonder
that Senator I.ippltt and Mr. McColl
were Interested In amending the
Tnvue bill. -New York World
Th Earning Capacity of a Dollar
Hanks may break and railroad
stocks depreciate in value; the
weather may affect crop conditions
and sway thereby the money market
to an unhealthy Inflation or cause
a shrinkage to a point several de
grees below rero. One such shrink
age alone would carry to destruction
thousands upon thousands of invest-
ors of all degree from the one op-
erating upon 'change with bis mi!
lions to he who plays a few dollar
on the curb or through the tickers
In the bucket shops.
Dollars were made to supply our
daily wants and to earn more dol-
lars. The earning capacity of a
dollar is only limited by the Judg
ment used by Its owner 1a Investing
It. The man who uses good sound
horse sense in socking a place for
the investment ot his "nest egg"
may after that sit in the shade and
watch bis surplus grow and the oris
Inal dollars multiply in a "healthy
ratio.
No Investment Is afe "ilfss it Is
guarded by a good ana non-shrink-able
security. Ileal estate Is the one
thing which always nas and always
will be an absolutely gilt edged so
curity.
Manufactories may burn and
strikes a.id other labor troubles put
railways out of commission and de-
moralize their securities in the fi-
nancial world but real estate always
remains the same. Its market price
like Tennyson's brook "goes on for-
ever" Just the same.
Anyone who would like to place
their money or any part of it in a
sound and secure proposition would
do well to see W. A. Edwards sec-
retary of the peoples liullding and
Loan Association.
i Great work Dona by Boy.
Painting is not the only art In
which masterpieces have been pro-
duced by mere boys. Although it was
not published until a year later it is
probable that Keats wrote his famous
Ode to Autumn In his sixteenth year
and Indeed all his five great odes
among the greatest in any language
before be attained legal manhood.
He died at twenty-five so that all the
masterpieces which came from his
pen may be regarded as the produc-
tion of a boy.
WOODROW WILSON.
it- whrm
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Will Insist on Baths.
The master of Navan Union County
Meath Ireland in which institution
compulsory baths for able-bodied
tramps have been Introduced recently
reported that 14 tramps were admit-
ted the previous night and rather
then take baths seven left. The- chair-
man then stated that the motto of the
institution from henceforth should ht
i"ewim or Shift."
Become Young Again.
We are too busy too encumbered
too much occupied too active! We
read too much! The one thing need-
ful Is to throw off all one's load of
cares and to become young again liv-
ing happily and gracefully In the pres-
ent hour. We must know how to put
occupation aside which does not mean
that we must be idle. Mrs. Humphry
Ward.
THOMAS RILEY MARSHALL.
THE TARIFF IN SUMMER DRESS FOR HOT-
WEATHER READING
A fancy wash fHtine manufactured In New
Kngland for 9 2 'A cents H yard Is sold t Hie
manufacturer at H' cents iiinuufaeturitii:
profit of 47V4 per cent. less selling expenses of
5 or at most ti per cent The Jobber i whole
sale dlstrlbuteri adds 3' re:its-a protit of 2'.'
per cent. less selling expenses The relabel
adds another 42 S per cent. and the Atiieric an
housewife gets the cloth at 25 cents cloth that
In Kngland can be bought retail for 17 cents.
Identical lu weave ami quality! WHY?
Cotton curtain scrim found In millions of
homes. Is made In America nt a cost that gives
the manufacturer ample profit selling It to the
print works (it H cents a yard The print works
sells to the Jobber lit 10 13 cents although It
finishes the goods at a cost of 1 37 cents The
Jobber adds 20 per cent. laying down the cur-
tain scrim to the department store at 12S cents.
The retailer charges the American housewife lit
to 29 cents More than likely he advertises It
as "IMrOUTKM" and sells It for the top price
because the tariff Is so high that the genuine
Imported goods cannot be sold for less It costs
Just as much In Kngland to make this curtain
material yet the English retailer sells It for
15.22 cents (74 pencei a yard against 19 to 2H
cents under the American tariff! WHY? From
N. Y. World
17 CENTS
OR 25?
15 1-5
CENTS
OR 20?
Women and Children First.
"Women and children first!" This
arder from the deck of the Titanic
has suddenly set trc warld afire is
if with a new ideal. Artists havo
illustrated it with striking cartoons
ministers have thundered It from the
pulpits and newsapper and magazine
writers have drawn its obvious nior
al and new ideal. Building and loan
officers have preached and persuaded
it in the United States for eighty-
one years until millions of 'beautiful
American homes have been erected
worth billions of dollars to the re-
public and still over one billion dol-
lars is deposited with the associa-
tions to build other homes all done
and being done by the fathers hus-
bands and sons to the one vital and
revivifying ideal of the great repub-
lic. Procrastination is the Titanic ol
the great social seas wherein dancer
and death Irk and wait for all and
every dollar saved through a build-
ing and loan association is a life-
boat in which women and children
first are to be rescued and sheltered
when the captain of the family takes
his last plunge from the bridge of
his domestic ship.
Is it any wonder that the race
of men who have learned to sacri-
fice day by day for the safety of
these women and children should die
with courage and resignation when
the crisis appears? The Building
and Loan Associations have bad more
to do with inculcating this practical
ideal and making all men alike in the
presence of the threatened family
than any other social business move-
ment The Building and Loan Association
have for eighty-one years on thi
continent been nd will continue to
be the practical life-boat for wo-
men and children endangered in tea
mid-ocean of life.
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OKLAHOMA
SEPTEM
HER 212
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Curtiss Exhibition
Company
of New York will positively make
three flights each day at
LORENA PARK
SEPT. 21 22 1912 COMMENCING 3 P. M.
The Curtiss people always fly. They
hold the world's altitude record today.
They have nothing but Licensed Avia-
tors. Curtiss will have one of his Latest
Biplane models here to make the flights
and John D. Cooper Aviator who will
make the flights at Ardmore is one of the
greatest sky men that flies in the world to-
day and flirts with death. The greatest
thing of all is to get close as you can and
see the machine leave the ground and re-
turn and light in the same place it started
from. It lights as gracefully as a bird.
ADMISSION
Adults 50c
Children 25c
(ONE TICKET ADMITS TO ALL THREE FLIGHTS)
Held under the auspices of the Ard-
more Traction Co. C. L. BYRNE
L. E. LARGE
Manager for the Curtiss Exhibition Company
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Easley, John F. The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 309, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 22, 1912, newspaper, September 22, 1912; Ardmore, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc145975/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.